Western cyclone., 1887-08-26
Condensed DISPATCHES

/ was III o"he1 a. StreatoT, Ill. Monday.
James Summers and wife, living near
Memphis, Ind, were struck 10y lightning and
! instantly killed
A threshilg engine at the farm of James
Mills, near Oakland, Ill, exploded. fatally
injuring two workmen.
: The lake schooners Monterey and Midland
River collided near Port Huron. Mich. and
both are laid UP for repairs
! While experimenting with chemicals at
Macon, H., last evening, Nelson Mcdaniel.
~ years Old, was instantly killed.
/ Jacob Gather, Beaver Greek, Ill, farmer
Tell OF his wagon in a runaway aud the
wheels went over him, killing him in few
hours
The engineers Of the first and second diyi-
sions of the Mexican Central road have
struck. The cause is supposed to be the dis.
charge Of one of their number.
The Michigan weather service crop bulIe.
tin reports growing crops favorably affected
during the week, with prospects much i'm
proved over the week previous.
Miss Maggie Heitkamp, daughter Of
Charles Heltkamp, superintendent of the
county farm at Chester, LII, was thrown
I from wagon and instantly killed by having
her neck broken. Her father. in his efforts
70 stop the team, was also seriously injured.
The Secretary of the Interior has revoked
the order of withdrawal OF indemnity lands
for the benefit OF the Atlantic d. Pacific
Railroad Company, and directs that they
may he restored 10 settlement under the prt.-
emptiOn and homestead laws 1t is stated
that between 25.0O0,OO0 and sc, 900 0OO acres
are involved i'll this decision in the case of
the Atlantic & Pacific company alone.
The dry goods store of Harry N. Woods Al
Bloomington, ILL.,, was closed Friday on q
Judgment for $l1, 900.
The liabilities of Gardner s. Dudley, hat
manufacturers at New York, are $l23, 7S5,
with actual assets of but $4,000.
Last night Annie Kolas, of Rochester.
Wis, was lodged in Jail in Racine on .
charge of numbering her child Aug l.
Solomon Conyer, colored, was hanged in
the Jail at Hampton. S. c., Friday, at Has
.. M, for the murder OF Jordan Robinson.
also colored.
Senator Riddlsberger was fined and COM
mitted to Jail at Woodstock, Va, Friday.
for contempt to court The affair has caused
partisan feeling to run high, and trouble i.
feared.
field, Ill who refused to permit 5. b. Tur.
ner, colored, editor of the State Capital, to
eat in their place, were held to the Circuit
Court Friday in $500 bonds
There will probably be a strike of all the
knights OF Labor employed i'll the shoe fac
tories in New York and Brooklyn in conse
quence of the strike that has been in existence
against Hanan & Son for months
Ohio, Kansas, and other States are to the
effect that the drought has been broken, but
1t Is feared too Late TO save the crops, which
In many cases had been harvested.
An aged citizen of Mattoon, Ill, named
John GoOdpasture, attended the funeral of
one Of his friends Friday. At the gate of
the cemetery the Old man fell to the ground.
Those with him ran to assist him, but found
him dead.
ID. I. Champerey. a rich farmer OF Ionia.
Mich, Thursday gave his wife, from WHOM
he had been separated, a deed Of a valuable
piece of land, saying he was going to leave
the country. Friday his body was found
near his door with bullet in the brain. lie
leaves an estate valued at $4,000
London has another dynamite sensation
and woman has been arrested.
Col. Dan Lamont denies the story Of CON
test between himself and ex-Secretary Man
uing.
Lucy B. Williams, coored belle Of Cen
tralia, Ill, eloped Saturday with her uncle.
Both have been arrested.
In fight Saturday at Elizabeth. IL, John
and Ed Richardson were fatally cut by
saloOnkeeper named Jim Alien.
Two new cases Of yellow fever have been
reported at Key West Fla, to the Board OF
Health, and one death, a colored clergyman.
Two Canadian vessels have been seized by
the American authorities at Rochester " Y,
on the ground that they have not been in
spected.
An inexpert Iowa farmer tried to plant
some popcorn during the late heated term.
but it popped as fast as it touched the
ground.
James Reynolds, who assaulted Mrs Mary
Noble, an estimable Lady, near Leon, Iowa,
was taken from Jail by thirty masked men
and hanged.
Saturday afternoon a tornado in Lee
county, Iowa, DID large amount OF damage
1t centered near St Pau. completely demol-
ishing the 81. james Roman Catholic church.
a $4,000 edifce cOmrletei about a year ago.
Several smaller structures were a.so de-
E.roysd